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Movie-Themed Treasure Hunt
This is an activity for team or pairs from Years 11+ and involves an active search for the answers, which are interdependent, so that one answer leads to another as students progress.
The game could be set up as a race to the finish line. Depending upon the research abilities and cinematic specialist knowledge of the team, the game could take anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes to complete.
Included in this resource pack is: a treasure hunt ‘map’, two styles of answer sheets for students/teams, and an answer key for teachers.
Winter's Bone - binary analysis
This chart helps to understand how the narrative conflicts in Winter’s Bone are related to different ideological positions, with respect to values such as community versus individual rights, ‘omerta’ versus whistleblowing, and ‘honour’ versus responsibility/ humanity.
A-Level Film Studies: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) Close Study
This GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST film from the late silent period showcases many features of German Expessionist cinema, as well as being a key example of a film made in Hollywood for an American audience. Made in 1927 by Fox Studio, this film forms the basis of a lesson around German Expressionist cinema and its visual techniques. This 32-Slide presentation provides lots of detail as well as explanation about how certain visual effects were achieved.
Ideal for teachers fdollowing the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2.
New Hollywood of the 1970s PowerPoint Presentation
This is a full color 20-slide presentation with links to helpful film clips as illustrations.
It forms a class lesson for A-Level film Studies or equivalent and gives helpful context for films produced at this exciting, director-led period of of Hollywood cinema.
Do Documentaries Tell Stories? - starter exercise
This is a quick starter worksheet to get students to begin a discussion on the similarities and differences between documentaries and narrative (fiction) films. They may be surprised how many conventions and techniques overlap. This can help to stimulate discussion of what makes a film a documentary, since documentaries can be harder to distinguish from narrative films than one might think.
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wei) - a narrative study
This fully animated, interactive 20 Slide illustrated Power-Point presentation forms the basis of a lesson, ideal for a post-screening discussion of narrative in Wong Kar-Wei’s 1995 Hong Kong New Wave film FALLEN ANGELS. The presentation provides several opportunities to pause and discuss aspects of narrative in the
film and encourages students to think about the ways in which Wong’s cinema breaks away from conventional genre storytelling methods.
The presentation is ideal for the Global CInema / Experimental Cinema component of EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level or for any film studies course interested in Hong Kong New Wave, Auteur studies, or Global Cinema.
What is THE BECHDEL TEST?
A brief explanation of the Bechdel Test and what it measures. The test is widely regarded as a measure of female representation in film, and provides a useful ‘rule’ by which representation of women / girls can be measured.
No Country For Old Men Analysis (A-Level Film & Media Studies)
This fully animated, interactive presentation is comprised of 43 full colour slides. The analysis of narrative, formal elements and spectatorship aims at preparing film studies students for the A-Level Exam, (EDUQAS FIlm Studies, Component 1B - American Cinema).
It is equally useful for any film or media course. Elements of narrative, as well as camera, sound design, mise-en-scene and lighting are all analysed in this comprehensive study of this modern Western gothic film.
This presentation is designed to form the basis for a full one hour lesson, and could be extended to further sessions.
REPRESENTATIONS IN *TRAINSPOTTING*
This is a set of notes to help for revision of TRAINSPOTTING for film studies A-Level candidates.
Representations analyzed include:
Nationality
Class
Gender
Age
SUNRISE (FW Murnau, 1927) -- Test
Basic Comprehension questions - Test - for SUNRISE, Eduqas A-Level Film Studies.
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, UK, 2009) HOMEWORK QUESTIONS
Useful for the EDUQAS Film A-Level.
12 questions covering representations, class, ideology, narrative and ‘the female gaze’.
EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-Level - Silent Cinema Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
This 39-slide fully interactive presentation ends with exam questions and guidance from the EDUQAS boards, as well as offering historical context and aesthetic characteristics of German Expressionist cinema, with special focus on SUNRISE (FW Murnau).
This presentation is excellent for exam revision and conveys the key talking points for this section of the **Film Studies **Component 2 paper.
FILM STUDIES. Component 2B: Documentary: the significance of DIGITAL TECH
This fully interactive, colour slide presentation comprises 25 slides which include links to relevant YouTube videos, classroom exercises and exam questions.
The case study used for this particular slide presentation is ‘Sisters in Law’ but any of the films on the specification could be substituted.
This is a valuable teachring resource for the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL.
EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level , Hollywood 1930 – 1990 Comparative Study (REVISION)
This 14 slide, fully-animated presentation involves key revision in preparation for Component 1, Section A: Hollywood 1930 – 1990 Comparative Study. Focus is on the auteur debate and industrial contexts, with other factors such as gender representation and genre also considered. The presentation involves interactive exercises and should fill one lesson.
The Cinema of Wong Kar-wei: an introduction
Suitable for teaching the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL, this resource comprises a 23-slide presentation giving an overview of the distinctive features of Wong Kar-wei’s films. Useful for the EDUQAS A-LEVEL film studies Component 2: Global Filmmaking perspectives, Section D, Modern Experimental Film, this resources is fully animated and contains links to illustrative You Tube videos.
This presentation provides an introduction to the cinema of Won Kar-wei and works well as background / contextualisation of CHUNGKING EXPRESS or FALLEN ANGELS.
time: 1 hour
Cinema Vérité: a Revolution in Documentary Style
This is a** fully animated** and illustrated (with helpful links integrated) overview of the Cinéma Vérité film movement, comprising 44 slides. Useful for teaching the EDUQAS A-LEVEL in FILM STUDIES (Documentary Component) as well as the IB in Film or Media Studies. The content covers how Cinema Verite ** evolved in the United States, UK, Canada and France. *A- Level FIlm Studies Tutors can use this for two entire lessons.
The PowerPoint presentation is to be used over a two-hour lesson and includes breaks for discussion and feedback, as well as the option to use the built-in links to video clips / examples. The presentation includes pictures, text, exercises and video links.
It is useful for teaching at A-Level, the International Baccalaureate, or as an introductory lesson at University Level.
EDUQAS Component 2.Global Filmmaking Perspectives, Section B. Documentary Film
This presentation is based on insights from Patricia White’s article ‘Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto’ from Cinema Journal 46, No. 1, Fall 2006.
Using Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto) as the central case study, this 30-slide presentation forms the basis of an hour-long lesson and concludes with a past exam question.
Ideal for teaching EDUQAS A-LEVEL** FILM STUDIES**, this resource focuses on Kim Longinotto’s documentary practice and ‘theory’, allowing students to contextualise her approach in terms of wider feminist debates around the position and role of Western feminists vis-a-vis feminists from other cultures and national contexts.
Post-Screening Discussion Questions - Film Studies - Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
**Raise the Red Lantern **(Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1991, China) is an excellent example of a film that deconstructs how
patriarchal power works and in this sense it is a film that is empowering for women, despite being a narrative *about *
disempowered women.
The film has also been discussed as a metaphor for Chinese state power and therefore also functions a a subversive political commentary.
With beautiful cinematography and composition throughout, this film is also a study in cinematic perfection, with mise-en-scene used to great symbolic effect. The film could be studied just as an excellent example of mise-en-scene.
Spectatorship Test
This 10 question test is a great accompaniment to the Specatatorship PowerPoint Presentation Resource for teaching the EDUQAS A-Level Film Studies Component 1, Section B. Contemporary American Film.
Topics covered include: hypodermic needle theory, active versus passive spectatorship, archetypes, intertextuality, viewing contexts, polysemy and oppositional readings of films.
The test is best used for Year 12 or Year 13 film studies but can also be helpful for Media Studies teachers vis-a-vis spectaorship and ideology.
EDUQAS A-Level Film Studies - introduction to SPECTATORSHIP Issues
This resource closely follows the EDUQAS A-Level specification and the Lisa Wardle textbook to offer teachers a comprehensive introduction to the main issues around spectatorship. This is especially useful in teaching Component 1, Section B, American Film Since 2005.
Topics covered include active versus passive spectatorship, viewer positioning, analysis of how film form and narrative shape spectator response, viewing contexts, demographic factors, intertextuality, preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings ( Stuart Hall’s theory) with a few case study application suggestions (CAROL, Haynes, 2015).
The resource includes interactive exercises and is presented with nice visuals and text/picture animations.
Approx length of time - 1 entire lesson (1 hour).
Number of slides: 38.